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NYPD operates over 15,000 facial recognition cameras as part of ‘Orwellian’ surveillance network – report

The NGO enlisted thousands of volunteers to hunt for cameras at intersections in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, in an…

3 years ago

Mainstream media goes full Orwell telling readers they’re using the word ‘Orwellian’ wrong

News outlet USA Today has managed to personify the term ‘Orwellian’ in its profoundly condescending writeup scolding readers for “using…

3 years ago

British policing’s Orwellian practice of recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ that blacklist children for thoughtcrime must end

The girl, known only as Miss B, became a target of police interest because she, along with millions of other…

3 years ago

‘We are in a truly Orwellian culture’: Amazon yanks Covid-19 skeptic’s book for ominously vague ’content violations’

After selling a respectable 3,500 copies over the last two months, Perloff’s book on the coronavirus pandemic and its weaponization…

4 years ago

Why say ‘riot’ when you can be vague and sensitive instead, AP Stylebook urges in newest Orwellian guidelines

While acknowledging the dictionary definition of riot as a “wild or violent disturbance of the peace,” AP said the word…

4 years ago